Cast Gallery catalogue number: C194

Female statuette (Persephone?)

• Plaster cast: Height: unavailable.
• Copy of a marble statuette.
• The statuette:
  • is a reduced version of a work of about 300 BC.
  • was acquired with the Mattei Collection in 1770 by Pope Clement XIV.
  • was restored by Sibilla in 1771.
  • is now in Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, Candelabri, inv. 2826.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

C 194
Statuette of a Draped Female; Vatican

Marble
Statuette
Vatican, Candelabri, 253 c